Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum

<p><i>Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum: Project-Based Learning</i> will renew the critical attention paid to projects in the art and design curriculum and rigorously consider impacts on student experience.</p><p>How exactly do we conceive of ‘projects’ in the context of a post-secondary creative arts curriculum? Each chapter in this book confronts the project as a specific potent and transformative site of learning with vast engagement potential for the contemporary student. What unites the project-based learning methods in this book is an emphasis on the motivated and purposeful activities of the learners that result in tangible making and doing. Craft-based learning practice-based learning experimental learning design culturally informed practices and reconsideration of obsolete learning mechanisms all coalesce in this text and evidence the innovativeness and abiding power of project-based learning.</p><p>Each author in this book describes a diverse experience of learning that serves as an exemplar of project-based learning and illuminates the histories theories and dynamics of the method for teachers learning designers educational theorists and interdisciplinarians.</p>